Introduction To SpringRoo

A division of
Introducing Spring Roo
Extreme Productivity in 10 Minutes
Eberhard Wolff
Principal Technologist
SpringSource – A division of VMware
Copyright 2009 SpringSource. Copying, publishing or distributing without express written permission is prohibited.
About me
A division of
•  Eberhard Wolff
•  Principal Technologist
•  i.e. I work on the Service Delivery product
roadmap
•  …and do consulting / training engagements
•  Author of many articles and the first German
Spring book
•  ewolff@vmware.com
•  Blog: http://jandiandme.blogspot.com
•  Twitter: @ewolff
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About SpringSource
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Unifying the Application Lifecycle:

from Developer to Datacenter
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"   Efficiency
"   Control Modern

Application
Virtualized
Infrastructure
Platform Platform
"   Flexibility
Developer to
Datacenter to Cloud
Agenda
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•  Introducing Roo
•  Capability Areas
•  Using Roo
•  Roadmap and Resources
•  A Closer Look: Spring Insight
•  Let's Get Cloudy: Cloud Foundry
Agenda
A division of
•  Using Roo
Mission Statement
A division of
“Roo's mission is to
fundamentally and sustainably
improve Java developer
productivity without
compromising engineering
integrity or flexibility”
End User's Description
A division of
•  “Roo is a little genie who sits

in the background and
handles the things I don't
want to worry about”
What Is Roo?
A division of
•  Roo is an extensible, text-based RAD tool for Java
•  Roo is development-time only (no Roo runtime)
Implementation Overview
A division of
Roo Infrastructure
Roo STS
Roo
provide Roo
Add-Ons
@Roo Roo
Add-Ons
Add-Ons
Annotations Add-Ons
Shell
source only monitor and

retention change
User's Project
.aj .java .xml .jsp .properties
Familiar Libraries
A division of
•  Roo builds on what you already know

–  Popular, proven, and mature APIs at your full disposal
•  Java
•  Spring Framework
•  Java Persistence API (Hibernate)
•  Java Server Pages
•  Spring Security
•  Spring Web Flow
•  Log4J, Maven, AspectJ, Eclipse/STS...
Uses Java's Strengths
A division of
•  The world's most popular language (Tiobe)

–  Skills availability, vendor choice, low risks, open source
•  APIs are popular, standardised, safe, proven
•  Quality, mature and deep tooling integration

–  IDE code assist, debuggers, refactoring, profilers etc
•  Static typing
–  Fewer errors, robust refactoring, code assist, JVM design
Cloud-Class Scalability
A division of
•  Zero performance overhead

–  Efficient, reflection-free code
–  No dynamic proxies, deferred compiling, LTW or similar
–  No Roo runtime means no runtime performance cost
•  Zero memory overhead

–  No class creation means no Perm Gen memory issues
–  No Roo runtime means no runtime memory cost
•  Zero deployment footprint

–  Roo apps leverage OSGi bundles out-of-the-box
–  No Roo runtime means no WAR footprint size
More Great Stuff
A division of
•  No lock-in
–  Get rid of Roo from your project in under 10 minutes!
•  Easy to write and deploy your own Roo add-ons

–  Roo can even write them for you (seriously!)
•  Open source and SpringSource maintained

–  SpringSource-endorsed application architecture
•  Consistent apps across your team and enterprise
Code Generation Approach
A division of
•  Roo is a hybrid code generator

–  The best of the passive and active generation models
–  Achieved by use case-specific design decisions
•  Passive generation
–  Use Roo shell to make Roo generate something
–  It's done and it's finished (usually .xml and .java files)
•  Active generation (automatic round-tripping)

–  Builds detailed metadata model with help of @Roo*
–  Incrementally updates .aj, .jsp files - never .java files
Active Generation
A division of
AspectJ ITDs
Person_Roo_
write Roo read Person.java
ToString.aj Roo
Roo
Add-Ons
Roo
Add-Ons name:String
toString():String Add-Ons
Add-Ons
Person_Roo_
JavaBean.aj
read AspectJ read
getName():String Compiler
setName(String):void
Person.class
write
Compilation unit separation name:String
toString():String
with automated round-trips getName():String
setName(String):void
Demo
A division of
The Roo Tour:
A Web App Without Reading The Manual
(or blogs, web sites, samples, pre-written code or similar)
Agenda
A division of
•  Using Roo
Out Of The Box
A division of
•  Project management
•  General object services
•  Entity support
•  Field management
•  Persistence
•  JUnit testing
•  Dynamic finders
•  Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow and Selenium
•  JMS, SMTP and build system integration
•  Spring Security, Logging Setup.....
Project Management
A division of
•  Commands
–  “project” → creates new project in current dir
–  “dependency add” → adds dependency to POM
–  “dependency remove” → opposite of add
–  “backup” → creates ZIP of project
•  All dependencies use Enterprise Bundle Repo

–  Versioned, quality-checked, OSGi-compatible JARs
General Objects
A division of
•  Roo annotations suitable for any class

–  @RooJavaBean – getters and setters for free
–  @RooConfigurable – adds Spring @Configurable
–  @RooToString – you guessed it
•  Roo will automatically maintain the code for you
•  Roo won't get in your way

–  It just sits in the background and writes code you don't
–  You don't have to “tell” it to stop doing something
–  You don't have to use the Roo shell (any editor will do)
Entity Support
A division of
•  “entity” → creates an @RooEntity

–  Delivers a flexible, feature-rich JPA entity
–  Declares a JPA @Entity with id, version, EntityManager
and a no-arg constructor
–  Automatically adds count, findAll, findById, findEntries,
persist, remove, merge and flush methods to an entity
•  Command accepts many optional directives

–  Whether to build an automatic integration test
–  Table name, identifier column name etc
Field Management
A division of
•  “field” commands for most major field types
•  Field commands have options for

–  JPA-specific annotations (--fetch, --column etc)
–  JavaBean valiation-specific annotations (--max etc)
–  Java modifiers (--primitive, --transient etc)
•  Shell remembers last entity you worked with

–  Fields are automatically added to that entity
–  Override using --class
Persistence
A division of
•  “persistence setup”
–  Use --provider for Hibernate, OpenJPA and EclipseLink
–  Use --database for most common databases
•  Related commands
–  “persistence exception translation” → via AspectJ
–  “database properties list” → lists JDBC props
–  “database properties set” → changes JDBC prop
–  “database properties remove” → deletes JDBC prop
•  You can re-run “persistence setup” at any time
–  Switch from Hibernate to OpenJPA in one line!
JUnit Testing
A division of
•  “test integration” → JUnit integration test

–  Automatic “data on demand” feature for seed data
–  This is implied with “entity --testAutomatically”
•  “test mock” → JUnit mock test

–  Allows test mocking of static methods in your entities
•  “dod” → creates a data on demand class

–  Rarely used directly
–  Automatically created if tests require it
Dynamic Finders
A division of
•  Saves you having to write JPA QL finders

–  Roo will write them for you, complete with type safety!
•  Finders are added as static methods to entities

–  They're even compatible with abstract entities
–  “finder list” → shows all available finders
–  “finder add” → enable a specific finder
Easy Spring Web MVC
A division of
•  “controller scaffold” → an automatic controller

–  Automatic REST controller for a given entity
–  Automatic JSP creation and maintenance
–  Can fine-tune allowed methods (CRUD subset)
–  Permits date format to be specified
•  “controller all” → automatically scaffold all

entities
•  “controller class” → stub a manual controller

–  Just the controller – you write the rest
Web Stack
A division of
•  Automatic Spring JS, Tiles and URL Rewrite
•  “selenium test” → Test a scaffolded controller

–  Start Tomcat with “mvn tomcat:run”
–  Then run the test with “mvn selenium:selenese”
•  “webflow” → Create a flow with Spring Web Flow
Messaging: SMTP and JMS
A division of
•  “email sender setup” → setup SMTP sender
•  “field email” → adds an email sender field
•  “jms setup” → sets up JMS support

–  Optionally embeds a TCP-accessible ActiveMQ instance
•  “field jms template” → adds a JMS sender field
•  “jms listener class” → makes a JMS receiver
Build System Integration
A division of
•  Assorted build options

–  “perform clean” → runs “mvn clean eclipse:clean”
–  “perform eclipse” → runs “mvn eclipse:eclipse” (no m2eclipse)
–  “perform tests” → runs “mvn test”
–  “perform package” → runs “mvn package”
–  “perform command” → custom mvn command
•  You must have Maven setup and in path to use
•  Often used at end of “script” files
–  Verifies success
–  Brings project into Eclipse for further work
Miscellaneous
A division of
•  “security setup” → sets up Spring Security
•  “logging setup” → sets up Log4J configuration
•  “script” → executes a script

–  Specify clinic.roo, wedding.roo, vote.roo and
bundlor.roo for inbuilt sample applications
–  Specify a fully-qualified file system path for your files
Agenda
A division of
•  Using Roo
Requirements
A division of
•  Java 5
–  Same as Spring 3
•  Maven 2.0.9 or above

–  Roo itself doesn't need Maven installed to work
–  Maven is only needed for Roo-generated projects
–  ROO-91 requests Ant/Ivy → vote if you'd like it!
•  Tested with Linux, Windows and Apple

–  All platforms support tab completion and a colour shell
Download and Easy Install
A division of
•  Download Roo from www.springsource.org/roo

–  Simply unzip and add to your path
•  Linux/Apple users would use something like:

–  sudo ln -s $HOME/spring-roo-1.0.1.RELEASE/bin/
roo.sh /usr/bin/roo
•  Windows
–  Add %HOME%/spring-roo-1.0.1.RELEASE/bin to PATH
•  A public Subversion repository is also available

–  See readme.txt in root of checkout for dev installation
IDE Interoperability
A division of
•  We highly recommend SpringSource Tool Suite

–  Download it from www.springsource.com
–  Totally free to use
–  Includes Roo integration (eg CTRL+R commands)
–  Also pre-bundles AJDT, m2eclipse and other plugins
•  Eclipse also works, but use the latest AJDT
–  Eclipse does not provide STS' Roo integration
–  Roo can still be used concurrently via the shell
•  Roo also happily lives alongside emacs, vim,

notepad, and no IDE at all
Lifecycle Notes
A division of
•  SpringSource Tool Suite

–  Use the embedded Roo option
•  Any other case

–  Load Roo at the same time as your IDE or text editor
–  Roo automatically detects changes made outside Roo
•  No need to add Roo to your build system

–  Although “roo quit” will run Roo, update files and exit
Upgrade Actions
A division of
•  When you upgrade Roo, .aj files may change

–  This is a feature of active code generation
–  We make optimizations and enhancements in .aj files
•  Please refrain from editing Roo's .aj files

–  Roo “owns” the *_Roo_*.aj files
–  You can freely edit any file in your project except these
•  Just “push-in refactor” any .aj files you wish to edit
Removing Roo in Three Steps
A division of
1. Use AJDT's “push-in refactoring” feature

–  This moves the Roo .aj content into normal .java files
2. Remove Roo's annotation JAR from your POM
–  You can use Roo's “dependency remove” command
3. Remove @Roo* annotations from .java files
–  Use a regular exp find/replace in Eclipse for speed
•  You can still use Roo on the project again

–  Its “hands off by default” will ensure it's problem-free
Add-On Services
A division of
•  Third parties can easily publish new add-ons

–  See the addon.roo script
•  “addon list” → lists add-ons presently installed

•  “addon install” → downloads and installs add-on
•  “addon uninstall” → removes an add-on
•  “addon cleanup” → refreshes the environment
Recommendations
A division of
•  Use SpringSource Tool Suite

•  Don't remove Roo from your projects
–  You'll have much code to now manage by hand again
–  You'll miss out on automatic upgrade improvements
–  Consider removal as your insurance against lock-in
•  Record your jump-start applications as scripts
–  It's now so quick to change your design, so enjoy it!
–  Defer custom coding until your model seems correct
•  Ask questions on the forum for fast support
Agenda
A division of
•  Using Roo
Present Release
A division of
•  Spring Roo 1.0.2.RELEASE
•  Released 21 February 2010
•  11 releases in 11 months = extensive feedback
•  Plenty of documentation and tutorials included
Project Resources
A division of
•  Home → http://www.springsource.org/roo
–  Contains links to all other resources
•  Forum → http://forum.springsource.org
–  Roo team actively monitor forum and answer queries
•  Issues → http://jira.springframework.org/browse/ROO
•  Twitter → #roo hash key
Agenda
A division of
•  Using Roo
Spring Insight
A division of
•  Complete visibility in the performance for each

request
•  All layers:
Spring Beans (Services, Repositories)
Transactions
JDBC / SQL statements
•  Just deploy the application

•  and go to http://localhost:8080/insight
Spring Insight
A division of
A division of
Let's try it on our project!
Agenda
A division of
•  Using Roo
Cloud Foundry
A division of
•  Deploy Spring, Grails and Java applications to a

scalable, managed cloud environment in
minutes
•  No platform or technology lock-in
•  Rapidly deliver business applications without
operations bottlenecks
Productive and familiar development experience
Integrated monitoring and management for applications
and web infrastructure
•  Automatic scaling and infrastructure repair
•  Pay-as-you-go pricing; consumption-based
metering
Cloud Foundry䈊
Spring & Grails Applications in the
Cloud A division of
STS
AWS
Spring
tc Server
API Apache
Developers Hyperic
MySQL
Request
QA
User
IT
Enterprise Java Cloud
Requirements A division of
•  Self-Service
Easy access to Java platform/infrastructure services
Automation of common deployment blueprints
Integrated development & app management experience
•  On-Demand Capacity
Rapid setup, configuration, and tear down of complex
systems on demand
Intelligent provisioning of Java stack
•  SLA-Driven Resource Allocation

Inherently manageable applications & infrastructure
Ex. Elastic middleware driven by application SLAs
Cloud Foundry Developer
Preview A division of
•  Cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services

Will support VMware virtualization/cloud platforms in
future
•  Engage Spring and Grails community in

feedback loop as we build out cloud capabilities
•  Platform includes Apache, tc Server (Tomcat),

MySQL, Hyperic, and Cloud Tools technologies
•  Free to use; no uplift on standard Amazon

charges
Pricing to follow standard cloud service pricing models
Conclusion
A division of
•  Roo delivers serious productivity gains for Java

–  Popular, proven technologies you already know
–  Easy to learn and easy to use
–  Builds on Java's strengths
–  Extreme performance
–  No runtime, no lock-in, no risk
–  An active, supported, open source project
•  Spring Insight gives you performance
information
•  Cloud Foundry allows you to use the Cloud now!
•  Questions?
Learn more at the S2G Forum!
A division of
•  S2G Forum München 18.3. •  1st class speaker:
Jürgen Höller
•  3 Tracks:
Spring
(Spring Lead)
Groovy/Grails Graeme Rocher
Enterprise Production Systems (Grails Lead)
•  95! incl. food Guillaume LaForge
(Groovy Lead)
•  http://
www.springsource.com/ Christian Dupuis
events/s2gforum-3-18-2010 (SpringSource Tool
Suite Lead)
A division of
•  S2G Forum March 18th:

http://www.springsource.com/events/
s2gforum-3-18-2010
•  Blog: http://JandIandMe.blogspot.com
•  Twitter: @ewolff
•  ewolff@vmware.com
A division of
Cloud Foundry Screenshot Demo
Home Screen
A division of
Start
If issues are here
present
General AWS News

User’s events
health feed
Upload Application
A division of
Static content
deployed on
Apache
WAR file
(multiple
WARs and
contexts
supported)
Database
configuration
and DDL scripts
Applications Screen
A division of
•  List of previously uploaded applications

•  Actions: Upload, View/Edit, Launch, and Delete
Launch Application
A division of
Selected topology is
graphically illustrated
Select
topology
Deployments Screen
A division of
•  List of current and previous deployments

•  Actions: Launch New Deployment, View, Show Log

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A division of

Introducing Spring Roo

Extreme Productivity in 10 Minutes

Unifying the Application Lifecycle:

Spring Enterprise SpringSource tc Server

" Control Modern

• “Roo is a little genie who sits

• Roo is an extensible, text-based RAD tool for Java

• Roo is development-time only (no Roo runtime)

source only monitor and

.aj .java .xml .jsp .properties

• Roo builds on what you already know

• The world's most popular language (Tiobe)

• APIs are popular, standardised, safe, proven

• Quality, mature and deep tooling integration

• Zero performance overhead

• Zero memory overhead

• Zero deployment footprint

• Easy to write and deploy your own Roo add-ons

• Open source and SpringSource maintained

• Consistent apps across your team and enterprise

• Roo is a hybrid code generator

• Active generation (automatic round-tripping)

The Roo Tour:

A Web App Without Reading The Manual

(or blogs, web sites, samples, pre-written code or similar)

• All dependencies use Enterprise Bundle Repo

• Roo annotations suitable for any class

• Roo will automatically maintain the code for you

• Roo won't get in your way

• “entity” → creates an @RooEntity

• Command accepts many optional directives

• “field” commands for most major field types

• Field commands have options for

• Shell remembers last entity you worked with

• “test integration” → JUnit integration test

• “test mock” → JUnit mock test

• “dod” → creates a data on demand class

• Saves you having to write JPA QL finders

• Finders are added as static methods to entities

• “controller scaffold” → an automatic controller

• “controller all” → automatically scaffold all

• “controller class” → stub a manual controller

• Automatic Spring JS, Tiles and URL Rewrite

• “selenium test” → Test a scaffolded controller

• “webflow” → Create a flow with Spring Web Flow

• “email sender setup” → setup SMTP sender

• “field email” → adds an email sender field

• “jms setup” → sets up JMS support

• “field jms template” → adds a JMS sender field

• “jms listener class” → makes a JMS receiver

• Assorted build options

• “security setup” → sets up Spring Security

• “logging setup” → sets up Log4J configuration

• “script” → executes a script

• Maven 2.0.9 or above

• Tested with Linux, Windows and Apple

• Download Roo from www.springsource.org/roo

• Linux/Apple users would use something like:

• A public Subversion repository is also available

• We highly recommend SpringSource Tool Suite

• Roo also happily lives alongside emacs, vim,

• SpringSource Tool Suite

"   Control Modern

•  “Roo is a little genie who sits

•  Roo is an extensible, text-based RAD tool for Java

•  Roo is development-time only (no Roo runtime)

•  Roo builds on what you already know

•  The world's most popular language (Tiobe)

•  APIs are popular, standardised, safe, proven

•  Quality, mature and deep tooling integration

•  Zero performance overhead

•  Zero memory overhead

•  Zero deployment footprint

•  Easy to write and deploy your own Roo add-ons

•  Open source and SpringSource maintained

•  Consistent apps across your team and enterprise

•  Roo is a hybrid code generator

•  Active generation (automatic round-tripping)

•  All dependencies use Enterprise Bundle Repo

•  Roo annotations suitable for any class

•  Roo will automatically maintain the code for you

•  Roo won't get in your way

•  “entity” → creates an @RooEntity

•  Command accepts many optional directives

•  “field” commands for most major field types

•  Field commands have options for

•  Shell remembers last entity you worked with

•  “test integration” → JUnit integration test

•  “test mock” → JUnit mock test

•  “dod” → creates a data on demand class

•  Saves you having to write JPA QL finders

•  Finders are added as static methods to entities

•  “controller scaffold” → an automatic controller

•  “controller all” → automatically scaffold all

•  “controller class” → stub a manual controller

•  Automatic Spring JS, Tiles and URL Rewrite

•  “selenium test” → Test a scaffolded controller

•  “webflow” → Create a flow with Spring Web Flow

•  “email sender setup” → setup SMTP sender

•  “field email” → adds an email sender field

•  “jms setup” → sets up JMS support

•  “field jms template” → adds a JMS sender field

•  “jms listener class” → makes a JMS receiver

•  Assorted build options

•  “security setup” → sets up Spring Security

•  “logging setup” → sets up Log4J configuration

•  “script” → executes a script

•  Maven 2.0.9 or above

•  Tested with Linux, Windows and Apple

•  Download Roo from www.springsource.org/roo

•  Linux/Apple users would use something like:

•  A public Subversion repository is also available

•  We highly recommend SpringSource Tool Suite

•  Roo also happily lives alongside emacs, vim,

•  SpringSource Tool Suite

•  Any other case

•  No need to add Roo to your build system

•  When you upgrade Roo, .aj files may change

•  Please refrain from editing Roo's .aj files

•  Just “push-in refactor” any .aj files you wish to edit

1. Use AJDT's “push-in refactoring” feature

•  You can still use Roo on the project again

•  Third parties can easily publish new add-ons

•  “addon list” → lists add-ons presently installed

•  Use SpringSource Tool Suite

•  Spring Roo 1.0.2.RELEASE

•  Released 21 February 2010

•  11 releases in 11 months = extensive feedback

•  Plenty of documentation and tutorials included

•  Twitter → #roo hash key

•  Complete visibility in the performance for each

•  Just deploy the application

•  Deploy Spring, Grails and Java applications to a

•  SLA-Driven Resource Allocation

•  Cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services

•  Engage Spring and Grails community in

•  Platform includes Apache, tc Server (Tomcat),

•  Free to use; no uplift on standard Amazon

•  Roo delivers serious productivity gains for Java

•  S2G Forum March 18th:

•  List of previously uploaded applications

•  List of current and previous deployments